Learning Center: Articles: Scams: Stuffing Envelopes Scam
Why You Will Never Make Money Stuffing Envelopes
I'll admit it. When I was at college, I sent away $19.95 so that I could become a millionaire...stuffing envelopes at home. I know its shocking, but it didn't work out the way I thought. Here's what I learned:
Have you ever heard of a chain letter? It's pretty much the same concept. The information that I received told me that all I had to do was take out an ad, just like the one that I responded to, and collect money.
That's it. How simple!
Of course, they neglect to mention that this is against the law! Since there is no legitimate way of earning income, just asking people to send you money and do the same thing you're doing, it's just a big old scam.
Now, there are other companies, as I have learned through the years, who WILL actually pay you to stuff envelopes. What they neglect to mention is that this is unsolicited mail, usually containing some form of porn. Most people aren't comfortable doing that, so the company neglects to mention what the industry is actually about, they'll take your money, and run.
Let's be logical here.
Why would ANYONE pay ANYONE $1-$4 an envelope, just to stuff it? And what guarantee do they have that you're actually doing the work? If I was a business owner paying someone that much to do something SO trivial, I would want to be damn sure that the work was getting done!
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